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BLACKSBURG – Andreas Bjerrehus will kick off the Davis Cup competition on Oct. 31 at 11 a.m. ET for team Denmark. The Virginia Tech men’s tennis senior was selected to represent his native country in tennis’ most prestigious international team competition, in a knock-out match against Sweden.

The competition will run throughout the weekend with three team matches being played for the best two-out-of-three. Bjerrehus will face Sweden's Markus Eriksson and Mikel Ymer.

Bjerrehus will join his teammates in Antvorskovhallen, Slagelse, Denmark for an indoor match against the Swedish team as part of the Europe/Africa Zone Group I relegation play-offs. Joining Bjerrehus on the team is Frederik Nielson, Christian Sigsgaard and Thomas Kromann. They will face a Swedish team made up of Markus Eriksson, Mikael Ymer, Fred Simonsson and Johan Brunstrom.

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men’s tennis and is run by the International Tennis Federation. It is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. Now 125 nations have entered the competition. Nations which are not in the World Group compete in one of three regional zones (Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe/Africa). The competition is spread over four weekends during the year. Each elimination round between competing nations is held in one of the countries and is played as the best of five matches (four singles, one doubles). The ITF determines the host countries for all possible matchups before each year's tournament.

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